{"id":8214,"date":"2025-11-25T14:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:28:18","slug":"8214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/11\/25\/8214\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naharnet.com\/stories\/en\/316729-iran-guards-urge-revenge-after-israel-kills-hezbollah-chief\">\u201cIran Guards urge &#8216;revenge&#8217; after Israel kills Hezbollah chief,\u201d<\/a> Naharet, 11-25-25.\u00a0\u00a0What follows is indicative of the control that Iran has had and wants to continue in another sovereign state, Lebanon.\u00a0 \u201cIran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called Monday for &#8220;revenge&#8221; for the killing in an Israeli air strike on Beirut the previous day of Hezbollah&#8217;s top military commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai. \u201cThe right of the Axis of Resistance and Lebanese Hezbollah to avenge the blood of the brave fighters of Islam is unquestionable,&#8221; the IRGC, Hezbollah&#8217;s main military and financial backer, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Great article\u2014Iran\u2019s doorway to the continent.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/hezbollahs-drug-empire-in-south-america\/\">\u201cHezbollah\u2019s Drug Empire in South America,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 11-25-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/11\/irans-mismanagement-focus-fires-ravage-25-million-year-old-forests\">\u201cIran\u2019s mismanagement in focus as fires ravage 25-million-year-old forests,\u201d<\/a> Al Monitor, 11-25-25.<\/p>\n<p>Whomever this reporter is and the editor who approved this story, \u2026 well, I allow the other side to produce stories and we post them for contrast, even if they contain factual errors (such as the Israel attack in June was \u201cunprovoked\u201d)(the article never mentions the Iranian missile attacks that came first).\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2579007\/irans-larijani-arrives-in-islamabad-to-deepen-ties\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Larijani arrives in Islamabad to deepen ties,\u201d<\/a> Express Tribune, 11-25-25.\u00a0 On a related note, the ET doesn&#8217;t show up much on this blog because it doesn&#8217;t produce much news, it appears as a mouthpiece.\u00a0 But I do read online that it is the main publication of the Lakson media group and is a partner of the Int&#8217;l NYT (the global edition), so maybe there is hope the NYT could reign in this news sheet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/the-present\/irans-horrible-year\/\">\u201cIran\u2019s horrible year: How 2025 is pushing the nation to its limits,\u201d<\/a> Big Think, 11-25-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202511250874\">\u201cTrump authorized Saudi crown prince to manage US-Iran dialogue &#8211; Al-Akhbar,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 11-25-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2025\/11\/25\/iran-houthis-yemen-revolutionary-guard-corps\/\">\u201cIran loses control of the Houthis,\u201d<\/a> Telegraph, 11-25-25.\u00a0\u00a0Don\u2019t let the headline or the comments from the Iranian leaders out of left field fool you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIran Guards urge &#8216;revenge&#8217; after Israel kills Hezbollah chief,\u201d Naharet, 11-25-25.\u00a0\u00a0What follows is indicative of the control that Iran has had and wants to continue in another sovereign state, Lebanon.\u00a0 \u201cIran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called Monday for &#8220;revenge&#8221; for the killing in an Israeli air strike on Beirut the previous day of Hezbollah&#8217;s top &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/11\/25\/8214\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions\/8241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}